Example sentences of "and they [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have chosen to look at these two particular books because both struck me as very vivid accounts of what the authors foresee in the future and they tackle primarily the serious repercussions of the dehumanisation of man . |
| 2 | And they revealed how the secret of a happy marriage is compromise . |
| 3 | I my money l last time and they took up the limit on my cash card . |
| 4 | At erm , summer camp , when I came last year as well , there were sisters , and the oldest one was about twelve , the next one was about ten , and the next one was about eight and they they were half cast , I 'm not qu quite sure , the their mother was sort of , she 's dark , she 's sort of half cast , and they 've got , they all very very attractive girls , with such lovely hair , just corkscrew , it 's really lovely , and they come out the erm , swimming pool and they bring their their erm , shampoo and their conditioner with them , and do I ca n't just see this the family look . |
| 5 | Once spinning , they are difficult to stop , and they flash down the slopes in a series of great leaps and bounds , making a loud whirring noise , and travel sometimes for hundreds of metres . |
| 6 | We call them Greek myths and they tell how the gods and their companions ruled and organised the world . |
| 7 | And they came back the next day to build shelters for the Feast of Tabernacles , in obedience to the law 's commands . |
| 8 | And they went down the shelter . |
| 9 | Ranulf scooped his dice into his leather wallet and they went down the spiral wooden staircase and into the hall . |
| 10 | And they pick up the tunes of the language . |
| 11 | You ca n't sleep you 're actually providing your own sleep deprivation and you say hey , next thing you know I really will be falling down the stairs ! but he does n't seem to get the joke and then it 's back to the cell and then the interview room with the barred , opaqued windows so you ca n't see out and they switch on the tape-machine recording everything as usual and it 's getting more bizarre ; they get me to do a Michael Caine voice ! |
| 12 | ‘ And I 've been stung by nettles , ’ he said , injured , and pretended not to hear Dorrainge who said it was a mistake to pamper nettle stings , and they had n't the time to soothe people 's silly imagined injuries . |
| 13 | And that 's an it 's an ideal display see the mechanics working and they take out the cage and off you go . |
| 14 | They are n't cheap to buy or send , and they clutter up the house . |
| 15 | Sweat poured from their bodies and they wore only the thinnest of breeches . |
| 16 | representative : they enable all relevant interests to be involved in the decision-making process and they bring together the specialised knowledge of working people into a working combination ; |
| 17 | ‘ Individually , they are very nice children , ’ says John , ‘ but put them together and they bring out the worse in each other — like football supporters . ’ |
| 18 | Carefully , the major turned the conversation to an Iranian editorial he had seen , and they laid down the subject . |
| 19 | The Platoon Sergeant loads the necessary extinguishers and fire-fighting equipment into the back of a vehicle and they speed off The accident has occurred a few hundred metres from the Turkish depot in which ammunition is stored for the Force . |
| 20 | And they put up the flats , and I think I 'm right there , is about seven hundred dwellings . |
| 21 | With the old snow and they go up the the hills up there and er go sledding and er they find it very enjoyable actually . |
| 22 | They 're doing it there , and they go up the way . |
| 23 | and like they run down the stairs and run back up the stairs , yeah , and they 're looking out the window out the window and they go why the bloody hell are you always just looking out of windows and he 's going do it your way and I 'll do it mine . |
| 24 | Camcorder viewfinders are , in effect , miniature television screens , and they show both the scene as received by the camcorder lens and also the recorded picture when the machine is switched to playback . |
| 25 | And they put all those factors together and they weighed up the alternatives and you 've heard some of them already . |
| 26 | There is such a thing , we say there , as life that is unworthy of life , and I do n't know about that , but nobody wants them , not even us , and they leave here the same day for some other place , in the coach with the tinted windows . |
| 27 | Because the Yek mutation bred true , all the children had talons instead of finger nails , and they possessed both the remarkable powers of healing and the resistance to disease which were the genetic inheritance of the True people . |
| 28 | What we witness here is something resembling the Freudian proposition that the repressed returns via the very images , structures , and mechanisms of repression itself : the words which consummate the renewal of man , his salvation , these words return to signify the opposite of salvation which is damnation , and they signify also the desire which only damnation can acknowledge and which salvation must repress . |
| 29 | and they recognized too the enormous boost to his prestige that had come with victory . |
| 30 | Until 1948 the British ruled Palestine , but on 15th May that year the British mandate came to an end , and they handed over the country to the Jews . |